Word Meanings - HARD-MOUTHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard- mouthed horse.

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• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• HORSEMAN
  A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1.
• HORSEKNOP
  Knapweed.
• HORSERAKE
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• HORSE-JOCKEY
  1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses.
• GOVERNABLENESS
  The quality of being governable; manageableness.
• MOUTHFUL
  1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
• HORSEMINT
  A coarse American plant of the Mint family . In England, the wild mint .
• HORSEWORM
  The larva of a botfly.
• HORSESHOE
  The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in
• HORSEWOOD
  A West Indian tree with showy, crimson blossoms.
• GOVERNANCE
  Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.
• HORSEWHIP
  A whip for horses.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• HORSE-LITTER
  A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. Milton.
• MOUTHED
  1. Furnished with a mouth. 2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide- mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
• HORSEWEED
  A composite plant , which is a common weed.
• MISGOVERNED
  Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
• REAR-HORSE
  A mantis.
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• LOUD-MOUTHED
  Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
• SAWHORSE
  A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• SEA HORSE
  1. A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus. The walrus. Any fish of the genus Hippocampus. Note: In a passage
• REDMOUTH
  Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• FLAP-MOUTHED
  Having broad, hangling lips. Shak.
• HOT-MOUTHED
  Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden.
• FOUL-MOUTHED
  Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison.